Bird
Painted Bunting
Passerina ciris
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (74)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Summer: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 78
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Upland Swamp PrivetForestiera ligustrina
- White AvensGeum canadense
- Hairy SunflowerHelianthus hirsutus
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Ashe's JuniperJuniperus ashei
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- Rough Blazing-starLiatris aspera
- Northern Winged Loose StrifeLythrum alatum
- Osage-orangeMaclura pomifera
- Prairie CelestialNemastylis geminiflora
- Beaked PanicgrassPanicum anceps
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
- Cobaea BeardtonguePenstemon cobaea
- Large-Flower FameflowerPhemeranthus calycinus
- Prairie FameflowerPhemeranthus rugospermus
- Eastern Needle GrassPiptochaetium avenaceum
- American PlumPrunus americana
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Chinquapin OakQuercus muehlenbergii
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
Wildlife 218
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Painted Bunting
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)








































